Section 59, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Convicted criminal inmates sentenced toimprisonment whether by one or consecutive sentence or sentences for a period exceeding one month, may by industry and good conduct earn a remission of one-third of the remaining period of the sentence or sentences. (2) For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of subsection (1), each inmate on admission shall be credited with the full amount of remission to which the inmate would be entitled at the end of the sentence or sentences if the inmate lost or forfeited no remission. (3) An inmate may lose remission as a result of its forfeiture as a punishment for an offence against correctional centre discipline and shall not earn any remission in respect of any period- (a) spent in hospital through the inmate's own fault or while malingering; or (b) while undergoing confinement as a punishment in a separate cell. (4) On the recommendation of the Director-General, the Council may grant a further remission on special grounds. (5) The Director-General may restore forfeited remission in whole or in part. (6) For the purpose of calculating remission of sentence, imprisonment for life shall be deemed to be twenty years imprisonment.